Do You See What I See? Oh. Wait. That's Right--You Can't!
I recently posted a video on my other blog about an optical illusion of a 3-D cube floating in the air. (If you haven't seen it, go ahead and click on that link. I'll wait right here until you get back. I promise!) Lines on the walls were placed in a certain way so that if you were standing in just the right spot in the room, you could see the floating cube. If you stood anywhere else in the room, you could only see the lines on the walls. I've been thinking about that cube illusion and how the principle behind it can be applied to the way two people can have very different views of the same situation. We each of us see the world around us through our own filters and prejudices. We make judgments and decisions based on our past experiences, on what we have been taught, and on what we think we see. The trouble is we can only see a very small part of what is the total reality. As a result, there may be times when we are absolutely certain...